Given her penchant for wearing burqas, her self-professed conversion to Islam, and her uncorroborated identification of her kidnappers as members of the al-Zarqawi group, many skeptical observers have been led to conclude that Susanne Osthoff is herself an Islamist militant and that she cooperated with the Jihadists who are presumed to have taken her hostage. A closer look at her words and her biography suggests a different, but no less troubling, scenario. See my new article on TCS Daily: “Susanne and the Baathists”.